UK Government Contract Notices for January 2018

January 2018 contract notices from the UK's Contracts Finder platform, structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format. The data is organized into daily files, each containing all OCDS releases for a given calendar day, and is published by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement activity patterns across daily OCDS release files for January 2018.
• Map public contracting processes using the standardized OCDS flattened CSV data structure.
• Track government spending announcements by examining the daily aggregation of contract notices.

Strengths

• Data adheres to the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK government's procurement body.
• Provides a complete daily snapshot of contract notices for the specified month of January 2018.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month (January 2018), offering no longitudinal view.
• Specific data volume metrics like row count, column count, and file size are unknown.
• The absence of column definitions makes direct analytical use challenging without schema reference.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder platform.

Collection Method

Aggregation of public contract notices published daily in OCDS flattened CSV format.

Time Range

January 2018.

Freshness

The data itself is from 2018, though the platform record was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom.